Trump can't strip Foreign Service workers of their collective bargaining rights, judge says
Source: Associated Press
Trump can’t strip Foreign Service workers of their collective bargaining rights, judge says
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Updated 1:25 PM EDT, May 14, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Wednesday to temporarily block the Trump administration from stripping Foreign Service employees of their collective bargaining rights.
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman granted a federal labor union’s request for a preliminary injunction that, while its lawsuit against the government is pending, stops the Republican administration from implementing a key portion of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
The American Foreign Service Association, which represents more than 18,000 members of the Foreign Service, sued to stop the administration over the March 27 executive order.
The union said Trump’s order “upended decades of stable labor-management relations in the Foreign Service,” removing all members at the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development from coverage of a law that gives them the right to organize and bargain collectively.
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